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Lord of the Flies
(Paperback, 1959)
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Author: William Golding
In this now-classic tale--a terrifying variation on the traditional boys' adventure story--the bruta...
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Synopsis
In this now-classic tale--a terrifying variation on the traditional boys' adventure story--the brutal behavior of a group of English schoolboys left stranded on a deserted island after an atomic war is an allegory for the defects of society.
| Size | | Length: | 208 pages | | Height: | 7.3 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 4.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon."
Industry Reviews
"With undertones of '1984' and 'High Wind in Jamaica', this brilliant work is a frightening parody on man's return (in a few weeks) to that state of darkness from which it took him thousands of years to emerge. Fully to succeed, a fantasy must apprach very close to reality. 'Lord of the Flies' does. It must also be superbly written. It is. If criticism must be leveled at such a feat of the imagination, it is permissible perhaps to carp at the very premise on which the whole strange story is founded."
New York Times Book Review - James Stern (10/23/1955)
"Like any orthodox moralist Golding insists that Man is a fallen creature, but he refuses to hypostatize Evil or to locate it in a dimension of its own. On the contrary Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies, is Roger and Jack and you and I, ready to declare himself as soon as we permit him to."
Kenyon Review - John Peter
"One sees what Golding is doing. He is showing us stripped man, man naked of all the sanctions of custom and civilization, man as he is alone and in his essence, or at any rate, as he can be conceived to be in such a condition."
"The Modern Novel" - Walter Allen
"Though much of the novel is in fact sparely and elegantly written..., there does seem to be a paint-by-numbers quality to its structure and periodically articulated epiphanies. The schoolboys...are types rather than characters....'Lord of the Flies' is a grim anti-pastoral in which adults are disguised as children who replicate the worst of their elders' heritage of ignorance, violence, and warfare."
New York Review of Books - Joyce Carol Oates (11/06/1997)
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Other Editions
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Hardcover, 1984 - $143.42
Paperback, 1996 - $2.99 Save 69%
Audio, 1997 - $8.00 Save 52%
Paperback, 1997 - $0.75 Save 94%
Paperback, 1999 - $1.37 Save 90%
Paperback, 1999 - $0.75 Save 89%
Paperback, 1984 - $28.93
Hardcover, 1993 - $4.99 Save 70%
Paperback, 1999 - $7.64 Save 36%
Audio, 1986 - $5.33 Save 86%
Paperback, 2000 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Paperback, 1984 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Audio, 2002 - $24.50 Save 23%
Audio, 2002 - $10.75 Save 58%
Paperback, 1997 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Paperback, 1987 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Hardcover, 2003 - $12.00 Save 52%
Paperback, 1999 - $4.99 Save 44%
Hardcover, 1999 - $0.98 Save 95%
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